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- BullBear80 replied Oct 2, 2014
Good day traders, Today will be my last journal entry for the week as I will not be at my workstation at all tomorrow. So a busy week. Five trades have closed out after hitting their stops. The trades were all Long and the victims were JNJ, CAD/JPY, ...
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- BullBear80 replied Oct 1, 2014
Hi N2FX, Hope all is well. Thanks for taking the time to read the thread. Just trying to keep a document of everything I do. Maybe I can find good and bad patterns in how I trade and hopefully increase performance! Plus it gives an opportunity for ...
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- BullBear80 replied Sep 30, 2014
Good day all, Well I have not made any journal entries since Friday and in the meantime I have positioned two trades. A Short on EUR/GBP and a Long on GBP/AUD. Neither has triggered but as you can see I do expect Sterling to keep getting stronger ...
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- BullBear80 replied Sep 30, 2014
Thanks systematicfx. I did some research on parabolic stop and reverses so I have added them to a couple of my charts to see how they play out with my other indicators. I'm afraid I dont understand the meaning of "...taking profit lurking above the ...
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- BullBear80 replied Sep 26, 2014
Hello All, Well Friday is upon us once more and another week of trading draws to a close... This week my portfolio was up and down like a yo-yo, finally levelling off today in pretty much the same position as at the beginning of the week. A small ...
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- BullBear80 replied Sep 24, 2014
Good evening Traders, So today saw me go Long on Facebook. Facebook has been trending North on the M,W,D charts and more recently has been ranging with a slight Bullish bias. I also took a Short position on Starbucks. This trade did not trigger, and ...
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- BullBear80 replied Sep 23, 2014
Good evening all, Today I positioned a Short on AUD/NZD and another Short I positioned on 15 Sept on S&P triggered. AUD/NZD has been trending south since the beginning of Sept, although on the weekly chart the market is ranging. I will keep an eye ...
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- BullBear80 replied Sep 23, 2014
Hi Systematicfx, Can you explain what you mean by "volatility take profit in case you have a 10 sigma move"? I would be happy to add some indicators to my charts to see how they play out alongside my own exit strategy. Build up my knoweldge base in ...
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- BullBear80 replied Sep 22, 2014
Good evening traders, Well the start of another week and it's been a quiet start at that. I have taken no new trades today nor have I positioned any new trades. There seems to be a theme developing with regards to Monday trading....I dont seem to ...
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- BullBear80 replied Sep 22, 2014
Hi Fartist, You are correct on all counts. I only use the daily charts for entry and I would not spend more than 1 or 2 hours evaluating trades. I tend do my trade management etc in the morning and then try to spend an hour in the evening analysing ...
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- BullBear80 replied Sep 22, 2014
Hi Callum / N2FX, I must agree with both of you. I trade Daily charts and my average trade duration is seven days. As you can see below, some of my trades have been open over a month now. All, one market I am looking at now is EUR/CAD, possibly ...
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- BullBear80 replied Sep 21, 2014
Is this a program you run in MT4 to give you one page summarizing all trends available? I only use day charts to enter and I follow fartists method of confirming trends by using other time frames. In my case I use weekly and monthly to establish a ...
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- BullBear80 replied Sep 21, 2014
I dont use different time frames at all to be honest. My ability at this moment in time is limited to day charts only. I use daily charts to place positions but I take into account both weekly and monthly charts to determine trend in the market I'm ...
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- BullBear80 replied Sep 21, 2014
Thanks systematicfx. I studied this style of trading at school but I have never once heard it being mentioned "Donchian". Now that I have googled it and it's pretty much exactly the style I trade, I'm somewhat surprised that I could have missed ...
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- BullBear80 replied Sep 20, 2014
Anybody know if there is an alert out there for MT4 that can tell us when the particular market conditions we seek occour? This would surely save us the time we spend scanning all the markets available to us? Or....as we are all trend traders in ...
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- BullBear80 replied Sep 20, 2014
Good day Traders, We had a busy week just gone in the markets. Scotland voting against Independance, the build up to polling day was more volatile than the actual result. I have only been in one GBP trade this week, a Long on GBP/JPY and this trade ...
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- BullBear80 replied Sep 17, 2014
Hello Traders, Scottish Independence vote tomorrow, should be interesting to see the markets react...My money is on a "NO" vote, but lets wait and see! Since my last journal entry two days ago, my EUR/USD short has expired. Hit its ten day trailing ...
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- BullBear80 replied Sep 15, 2014
Hi Traders, I have a question. Does anybody here trading on a Live account, reconcile the daily bank statements they recieve against the orders they placed / closed on MT4? I'm just wondering if it is possible for discrepancies to appear or is ...
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